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App Review: AIM for Android offers Facebook Chat & AIM, but they can keep it

People in their 20’s probably have fond memories of chatting on AOL Instant Messenger, wasting their youth gossiping about peers or professing their love to middle-school sweethearts. Others may not care for those Wonder Years at all, but they should know that AIM and Facebook chat are both available in the new official AIM for [...]

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Motorola announces that no OTA update is coming for the DROID

Remember that OTA update that was supposed to be in the process of rolling out? Well, according to Motorola, that update is not coming. The news comes by way of the official Motorola Twitter account which read; For DROID users asking about an OTA update, we have not released a new one since Dec. update. Pls [...]

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OTA update currently rolling out for the Motorola DROID

Owners of the Motorola DROID may want to listen up because there has recently been an over-the-air update rolled out. And before anyone gets super excited, the update was not giving you Android OS 2.1, but still it looks to be beneficial — at least for some. The update is more geared to Facebook and [...]

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Facebook app Bloo returns as an updated and free app

It looks like Bloo, the unofficial but very popular Facebook app for Android has made a return into the Market. And in a little bit of good news, the return comes as a new version, and in even better news — Bloo is now a free app. Bloo is now at version 1.4.3 and brings photo [...]

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Looking for the Motorola Droid’s Facebook app?

Thanks to the xda-developers forums, or more specifically Twitter for pointing me to the post, I am soon going to be checking out the updated Facebook app. Of course, by updated Facebook app, I am referring to the version that was released with the Motorola Droid. As to what exactly has changed, or has been [...]

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Facebook launches touch-friendly website for smartphones

Facebook has launched a new mobile website to improve appearance and navigation for touchscreen devices, including Android. If you’re someone displeased by the old m.facebook.com website and still not a fan of Facebook apps – official or otherwise – you may want to check out this new touch-friendly version. In fact, my G1 automatically redirects [...]

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UPDATED: Official Facebook Android app now in Android Market

UPDATE: Yesterday, there were some questions about about whether this was the real Facebook app. Despite the Gmail address associated with the app and the Facebook app page saying that this was not created by Facebook, I believe this is the official app. The official developer listed in the Android Market is “Facebook,” a registered [...]

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The Android Logo gets remixed, over and over and over

Looking for an Android “droid” image, well the Motodev Facebook page seems to be the place to go. Just recently they were soliciting remixes of the Android Logo and those submissions have been appearing on the Motodev Facebook page. Nothing earth shattering here, nothing like a new handset release or anything, just a bunch of [...]

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Official Facebook app images spotted online

It looks like we are getting a little closer to actually seeing an official Facebook app become available for Android. Just to give a little back history, it was just about a week ago when Andrew let us know about the new reports of an official app in the works and of course we cannot [...]

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Are Facebook and Google working together on an Android app?

Are Facebook and Google working together to build a Facebook Android app? According to a report posted on TechCrunch, Facebook and Google are indeed teaming up to release an official Android application that could be released as soon as the end of the week. TechCrunch reports that Facebook has backtracked from its previous Android neglect and [...]

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